Joseph biley saltee



.(No Modem J. R. SALTEB.. GULT'IVATOR. No. 305,851. Patented `See-pt. 30, 1884.

Nr-TED STATES A'rnNr rtree.,

JOSEPH RILEY SALTER,

OF QUITMAN, GEORGIA.

cuLTivAToR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,851, dated September 30, 1884.

Application filed March 20, 1884, (No model.)

. tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to cultivators; l

and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly point-ed out in the claims.

Figure l is a View in perspective ot' a cultivator embodying the improvements of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe same. 3 is a perspective det-ail view of the adj nstable hinged coupler for connecting the cultivator-beams.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings. cc a designate the cultivator-beanis, which curve downwardly at their rear ends, and are provided with cnltivator-teeth of any approved pattern. i

b b" designate independent handles, which are connected at their forward ends to the eultiva.tor-beains by bolts and nuts c, their rear connections to the cultivator beams being made by means of brace-rods d d; secured by bolts and nuts, as ate. These brace-rods d d are provided with integral loops j' j" just above the upper edges of the cultivator-beanis, to which are hinged a haltsection of the adjustable coupling g. The half-sections 71I h of the adjustable coupling are either perforated or slotted longitudinally for the reception of the adjusting-bolts li 11', and the rods d d are passed through perforations near the ends of the haliseetious h. li of the adjustable oonpling y before the loops j j' are formed. The forward ends of the cnltivator-bearns are perforated for the recept-ion of the hooks k on the rear ends of the arms Z Z of the draft-hook m, thereby dispensing with the usual clevis-con neetion. The adjustable coupling permits the cnltivator-teeth to be lifted ont of the ground and adj usted independently of each other in case the teeth, or one of them, come in oon- .tact with roots, stumps, stones, or brush, and

the like, while in the constructions heretofore used all of the eultivator-teeth, or bot-h, where there are two, must be lifted to extricate a single tooth.

In order to malte the connection with the draft-hook, the frieze-iron of the single-tree needs only to be slipped upon thehook, thereby dispensing with all Clovis-irons.

This cnltivator possesses simplicity, ease of adjustment, cheapness, durability, and general elicieney.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- In a eultivatol, the combination, With the independent eultivator-beams, of the handles connected separately to said beams by bolts andnuts, and brace-rods having loops or eyes above the edges ofthe beams, 'and the hinged adjustable coupling connecting the brace-rods through their eyes, substantially as specitied.

In testimony that l elaim the foregoing as my own I have hereto atlixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH RILEY SAUBER.,

Witnesses JAMES D. WADE, J r., JOHN G. MCGALL. 

